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- From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds)
- Subject: Re: So You Want To Be A Wizard? (A modest proposal)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.180947.4068@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- References: <bazyar.726509395@teal> <1993Jan12.142826.22970@vlsi.polymtl.ca>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:09:47 GMT
- Lines: 21
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- In article <1993Jan12.142826.22970@vlsi.polymtl.ca> d40937@aiken (Jean Yves Desbiens) writes:
- >Jawaid Bazyar (bazyar@teal.csn.org) wrote:
- >: marco@soda.berkeley.edu (Marco Nicosia) writes:
- >:
- >: >Don't forget that it also says that you should be able to write UNIX
- >: >from scratch...
- >:
- >: Hey... _I_ did. Most of it, anyway. Haven't you? No smiley. See sig.
- >:
- >
- >The way some of the Unix code looks, reimplementing the whole thing
- >is not that bad an idea, maybe I should get to it in my
- >lunch break... :-).
-
- Actually, a lunch break isn't quite enough time for this - it takes
- about a year or two to get reasonably workable. See comp.os.linux.
-
- Linus "but I had some help" Torvalds
-
- PS. Yes, I know a smiley when I see one, but this was just too good to
- pass up...
-